Measurement of Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier contribution to the self-organized formation of ordered surface patterns on Ge(001)

Peco Myint, Denise Erb, Xiaozhi Zhang +6

Normal incidence 1 keV Ar${}^{+}$ ion bombardment leads to amorphization and ultrasmoothing of Ge at room temperature, but at elevated temperatures the Ge surface remains crystalline a…